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Well it appears India are searching for another Sachin and this kid seems to have some potential, not that there will be another Sachin in our generation or even the next generation, but this kid is off to a good start here is the article http://cricket.rediff.com/slide-show/2009/nov/06/slide-show-1-meeting-sachin-tendulkar-my-dream-sarfaraz.htm
Yeah, read about that in the Hun today. Epic knock from the kid.
Awesome knock and very humble kid
whats_at_stake
6 Nov 2009, 19:08
12 years old. Long way to go. Hopefully he does turn out to be great but he does not need the high expectations on him at this stage. It just shows how great Tendulkar is to have carried the pressure of 1 billion people for 20+ years.
If this kid turns out 1% as good as Sachin then India will have a decent player on their hands. I remember my cousin telling me about Sachin and he had actually seen Sachin score that triple hundred when he was 12, he said even at 12 Sachin was a man playing against boys.
Adelaide Hawk
6 Nov 2009, 20:47
Sporting history is littered with child prodigies who never lived up to the promise shown at an early age. I'll wait to see how good he is at 20 thanks.
potatomasher
7 Nov 2009, 12:55
If this kid turns out 1% as good as Sachin then India will have a decent player on their hands. I remember my cousin telling me about Sachin and he had actually seen Sachin score that triple hundred when he was 12, he said even at 12 Sachin was a man playing against boys.
Surely Sachin was 14 or 15 when he did it. It's hard to fathom a 12-year-old kid having as much concentration as this Sarfraz kid has. Apparently he got the runs at about a run a ball, so it wasn't as if he was just hitting boundary after boundary. Astonishing effort. Not saying he is the next Sachin, but this knock deserves appreciation whether he goes on with his cricket career or not.
Ricketts
7 Nov 2009, 17:00
What happened to Rohit Sharma? He looked decent last series we played.
Not sure about Rohit he is a good player still only 21 or so I think, maybe just out of form at the moment.
Looks extremely promising.
But will his career follow Sachin Tendulkar's or Vinod Kambli's (both were apparently equally good as teenagers, or close to it)?
Or will he just lose interest and disappear?
Good questions Darick, Kambil was a gun as well he scored 2 or 3 double hundreds in a row, but then got lost in the bad side of things. Become fat and lazy and a party boy, that's a huge pity he could have been anything.
wasn't Sehwag supposedly the 'next Sachin' early in his career?
No Shewag just modelled himself on Sachin's batting style.
wasn't Sehwag supposedly the 'next Sachin' early in his career?
Every promising young Indian batsman in the past 10-15 years - and for the next 10-15 years - has been the 'next Sachin'.
Of course the 'next Sachin' for India will be like the next Bradman for Australia. It won't happen.
IMO anyway.
Belnakor
7 Nov 2009, 20:40
reminds me of this guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._J._Collins
Cooldude
8 Nov 2009, 01:44
wasn't Sehwag supposedly the 'next Sachin' early in his career?
He's actually pretty close, to be fair to him. Great player in his own right, just not as good as Sachin
If this kid turns out 1% as good as Sachin then India will have a decent player on their hands. I remember my cousin telling me about Sachin and he had actually seen Sachin score that triple hundred when he was 12, he said even at 12 Sachin was a man playing against boys.
Hate when expressions like this are used. Nothing personal mate, just a pet hate.
If an international player is 1% as good as Sachin, he's nowhere near international standard. Is Tendulkar's record 100 times better than other "decent" international players? No.
Byron_Clanger
8 Nov 2009, 02:21
i feel sorry for the other kids waiting to have a bat, what a hog!
Ricketts
8 Nov 2009, 11:37
No Shewag just modelled himself on Sachin's batting style.
Ha! I wonder what went wrong there.
Hate when expressions like this are used. Nothing personal mate, just a pet hate.
Agree, just like when nuff nuffs claim they are giving 110%.
Ill Chicken
9 Nov 2009, 03:31
reminds me of this guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._J._Collins
It's amazing it is even considered a score.
India have over a billion people and therefore should have had about 50 Tendulkars walking about by now. These so called once in a generation players make it sound like its all fate and so on when it isn't. Australia wouldn't be where it is if such things were true.